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From: sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com (Sebastian Hesselbarth)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: dove: Relicense the device tree under GPLv2+/X11
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:35:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <553FB6B4.8020401@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150428155910.GD12732@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On 28.04.2015 17:59, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:09:04AM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> The current implicit GPL only licensing on the device tree makes it
>> very impractical for other software components licensed under another
>> license.
>>
>> In order to make it easier for them to reuse our device trees,
>> relicense our device trees under a GPL/X11 dual-license.
>>
[...]
>> so I decided to keep the whole relicensing in a single patch. Please send
>> your Acked-by's in reply to this patch if you are happy with the relicensing.
>
> I normally don't include the "or later version" for my license changes
> as I've only accepted to contribute under the terms of GPLv2.

Ok, I guess this is a NACK for GPLv2+ but an Acked-by if we limit the
GPL part to GPLv2 only?

If so, is everybody else who already Acked the GPLv2+ part also fine
with reducing the GPL version to "version 2 only" ?

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-28 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-27  9:09 [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: dove: Relicense the device tree under GPLv2+/X11 Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-27 11:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-04-27 12:03 ` Jason Cooper
2015-04-27 13:33 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2015-04-27 16:24 ` Jean-Francois Moine
2015-04-28 15:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-04-28 16:35   ` Sebastian Hesselbarth [this message]
2015-04-28 17:09     ` Jason Cooper
2015-04-28 17:44     ` Jean-Francois Moine
2015-05-01 20:15     ` Andrew Lunn
2015-05-01 20:18     ` Ezequiel Garcia
2015-05-01 20:21     ` Russell King - ARM Linux

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